HAPAX is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 17 points
Yes for Scrabble. HAPAX is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept HAPAX?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAPAX is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAPAX
No single letter turns HAPAX into another word.
How HAPAX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HAPAX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What does HAPAX mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A word or form that occurs only once in a given text, an author's surviving work, or an entire body of recorded language.
Scholars use hapax, short for hapax legomenon, when a single word turns up exactly one time in surviving writing, making its precise meaning hard to pin down from context alone; ancient texts and rare manuscripts are full of such hapax forms. The term comes from Greek, meaning said once.
How HAPAX is used
Technical term used in linguistics, philology and textual scholarship.
- The scholar flagged the word as a hapax in the manuscript.
- Translators struggle most with a hapax whose meaning is uncertain.
- Ancient Greek preserves several famous examples of a hapax.
- The dictionary entry noted the term as a hapax legomenon.
- Only one hapax appears in the entire surviving poem.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAPAX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HAPAX
3 longer words begin with HAPAX.
Shorter words from the letters in HAPAX
Common questions about HAPAX
- Is HAPAX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HAPAX is not in it.
- How many points is HAPAX worth?
- HAPAX is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAPAX mean?
- A word or form that occurs only once in a given text, an author's surviving work, or an entire body of recorded language.
- What letters can be added to HAPAX?
- No single letter can be added to HAPAX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HAPAX:
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